The programme and abstracts booklet is now available for the upcoming SIRG Workshop. We will meet at Unwin Lodge, Aoraki Mt Cook Village July 2nd – July 4th. The full programme is available here: proceedings Aoraki Mt Cook. The schedule is available here: SIRG2014_Schedule

A series of short public talks will be held at Unwin Lodge on Thursday July 3rd from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm. The speakers at this event will be Brian Anderson (VUW), Pascal Sirguey (Otago University) and Jane Morris (Alpine Guides). For more information and an advertising flyer see here: SIRG_publictalks.

The public are also welcome to the general talks during the SIRG workshop. We hope to see some of you there.

The rapid retreat of Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers is making these glaciers more difficult to access for West Coast tourism operators. However, on the other side of the mountains the rapidly-growing Tasman Lake, which Tasman Glacier regularly calves icebergs into, is providing spectacular experience for visitors.

The 2014 SIRG workshop will be held at Unwin Lodge in Aoraki Mt Cook Village close to the heart of the central Southern Alps. This setting provides the perfect location for the SIRG community to congregate. The 11th SIRG meeting will be the first winter meet and an opportunity to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the collaborative Brewster Glacier mass balance project.